Editor’s Note: Ukraine extended its COVID-19 quarantine until Dec. 31 and tightened restrictions across the country. Most cultural venues must operate at lower capacity, except those that allow only visitors who are at least partly vaccinated or who had tested negative for the disease in the past 72 hours. Check the event’s requirements before you go. To let us know about the upcoming shows, exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, festivals and parties, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
Nechyst
This year, most Halloween parties are happening all around Kyiv on Saturday, Oct. 30 instead of Oct. 31, so that all the vampires, witches, werewolves and zombies have time to sleep it off before work on Monday. One safe bet for them is the party at the HVLV bar (pronounced Khvylovy) with an inviting name “Nechyst,” which means “evil spirits” in Ukrainian. The organizers promise a “ball of extravagance, scandal, variety and brightness” with a line-up of DJs selected by Kyiv’s well-respected Worn Pop label: Kadiristy, Die Selektion and Cheriii. Halloween-themed parties will also take place at Closer, Barvy bar, Vognyk bar and other venues.
Nechyst. HVLV (18 Verkhnii Val St.) Oct. 30. 10 p.m. Hr 500, Hr 200 with a costume. Visitors must be over 21
Decolonize Your Mind Society and other experimental avant-garde bands will play a show at the Otel’ nightclub on Oct. 30, 2021. (Decolonize Your Mind Society/Facebook)
Decolonize Your Mind Society, Kurws, Le Cru, Dolgiy & Sidorkin
Before the 11 p.m. Halloween-themed party at Closer, visitors can try something different at Otel’ next door. As part of the Kyiv Biennial art forum, at 6 p.m. the club will host a show of avant-garde, free jazz and improvisation music developed underground in the former Eastern Bloc states that were under the influence of the Soviet Union. Budapest-based Decolonize Your Mind Society play something between psychedelic rock, avant-garde, jazz and experimental music with unusual instruments like the glissotar or refretted intonation guitar. Another act, the Polish Kurws band, uses a lot of improvisation to play a mix of rock, post-punk, krautrock, funk and no wave.
Decolonize Your Mind Society, Kurws, Le Cru, Dolgiy & Sidorkin. Otel’ (31 Nyzhnoiurkivska St.) Oct. 30. 6 p.m. Hr 250
“The Last Duel,” a historical drama by director Ridley Scott, will play in English in several Kyiv cinemas over the weekend of Oct. 29-31, 2021. (Courtesy)
‘The Last Duel’
Aside from the pandemic, cinemas are having their best season in Kyiv with the releases of European festival winners, such as “The French Dispatch,” “Titane” and “Benedetta.” They are expected to be screened in original languages next month, but there is another big awards contender playing this week in English – “The Last Duel,” another historical drama by the director of “The Gladiator” Ridley Scott. A Medieval epic for the age of #MeToo, the film recounts France’s last sanctioned duel between Jean de Carrouges (played by Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) after Carrouges’ wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer) accuses Le Gris of rape. The three-part structure presents the story as told by all three in turn. Critics call it “a well-acted and thought-provoking drama infused with epic grandeur.” There are also two blockbusters still playing in English in a few cinemas: “No Time to Die” James Bond film and “Dune” with new IMAX screenings at Planeta Kino.
The Last Duel (drama, history, action in English with Ukrainian subtitles). Hr 100-450
• Planeta Kino (River Mall, 12 Dniprovska Embankment). Oct. 29-31 12:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m.
• Planeta Kino (Blockbuster, 34 Stepana Bandery Ave.) Oct. 29-31 4:45 p.m., 8 p.m.
• Kinoman (Cosmo, 9 Vadyma Hetmana St.) Oct. 29-31 8:10 p.m.
• Zhovten (26 Kostiantynivska St.) Oct. 30-31 4:15 p.m.
• Multiplex (Retroville, 46 Pravdy Ave.) Oct. 31, 8:40 p.m.
“Crimea. Third Dimension” art and documentary exhibition first introduced in Kherson and the Kalanchak entry-exit checkpoint to Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia will be presented at the Crimean House in Kyiv on Oct. 30, 2021. (ArtPole)
‘Crimea. Third Dimension’
An exhibition aimed at strengthening ties with Crimea, Ukraine’s peninsula occupied by Russia, will be presented at the Crimean House on Oct. 30. It will feature both documentary and artistic projects first introduced in Kherson, the administrative center of Kherson Oblast that adjoins Crimea, and at the Kalanchak entry-exit checkpoint to the peninsula. The event starts at 4 p.m. with the introduction of the exhibits and will be followed by a show of Dreamdrift trip-hop and fusion band from Simferopol, Crimea at 7 p.m.
“Crimea. Third Dimension.” Crimean House (9 Omelianovycha-Pavlenka St.) Oct. 30. 4-7:40 p.m. Free
